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Here comes the judge

President Barack Obama selected Bacharach in January 2012 to fill the position vacated by Robert Henry in 2010. Despite widespread bipartisan backing, the nomination languished as Senate Republicans slow-played it in hopes that the GOP would take the White House in the presidential election and subsequently allow a President Romney to make such appointments. Even […]

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Going downtown

“For several years, the university and the law school have been looking for a location in the heart of downtown Oklahoma City,” said OCU Law Dean Valerie Couch. “Just being all under one roof is going to be wonderful for us.” In 2009, before Couch came aboard, law school officials considered a possible relocation to […]

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Clear and ‘present’ changer

That’s the impression you’d have after Coburn told The Oklahoman it was “stupid” for Senate Republicans to block a vote to confirm federal Magistrate Robert Bacharach to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. But then Coburn and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, both of whom have strongly endorsed Bacharach, stepped aside and left the judicial […]

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